| 74 Forgiveness Quotes
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“Bear and forbear.”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: also attributed to Epictetus
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“Forgiveness is better than revenge.”
Pittacus of Mitylene Quotes Source: quoted by Heraclitus
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“To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
[Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes Source: Mercator (II, 2, 46)
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“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism
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“Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 522)
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“What if this cursed hand
Where thicker than itself with brother's blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow?”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (King at III, iii)
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“I pardon him as God shall pardon me.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Henry at V, iii)
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“To err is human; to forget, divine.”
J. H. Goldfuss Quotes |
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“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”
George Herbert Quotes |
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“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
Peter Ustinov Quotes |
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“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
Josh Billings Quotes |
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Gandhi Quotes |
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“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.”
Joan Lunden Quotes |
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“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
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“Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.”
Earl of Chesterfield Quotes |
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“He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.”
Lord Herbert Quotes |
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“Forgive thyself little, and others much.”
Leighton Quotes |
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“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.”
Rambler Quotes |
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“Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.”
Sterne Quotes |
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“To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.”
Tillotson Quotes |
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“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
Anonymous Quotes |
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“It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.”
Madame Dorothée Deluzy Quotes |
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“If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.”
Hazrat Ali (a.s) Quotes |
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“When I'm having trouble loving someone
I mentally regress him to baby state.
-Jan Gopal-.”
Jan Gopal Quotes |
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“The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. -Israel Zangwill.”
Israel Zangwill Quotes |
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